Re: RDBMS for DOS and Windows
- Posted by Nick Johnson <arachnid at MAD.SCIENTIST.COM> Feb 25, 2000
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<snip> > Speaking as someone who was fired from a $30K job in 1986 for suddenly > needing to use a wheelchair, and living in my car for years, drinking from > puddles on the ground, and stealing food, i would have spent all the time i > was asked to spend maintaining a net of 386 computers just to be indoors, > having clean water to drink, and getting those aforementioned chickens. And > you know what? For a chicken a day, i'd *still* go to work maintaining those > old 386's, cause i am *still* unemployed. And i am in the "good ole USA". > Grrrrrrr <snip> I dont know what the status quo is over in the USA, but here in New Zealand (South pacific ocean - I rarely meet an American that knows where we are, even though we are currently in the process of taking the Americas Cup from you second time running) anyone with any disability (visual, physical, intellectual, speech, motor, etc) has completely equal rights to: Be educated at any level, Get a job, Use public buildings, be served by a business, purchase goods and services, etc. If law is equivalent over in the US, you should be able to take wendy's, the supermarket chain, and the person who fired to you to the small disputes (or court for your job) tribunal or equivalent over there. Nick